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All eight scenarios are finished, and Betrayal at the Mountains of Madness is now playable from start to finish! You can find the full details of the campaign here. Scenario 6: City of the Elder Things, Scenario 7: Judgement at the Dark Tower and Scenario 8: The End of the Earth are now complete and … Continue reading Betrayal at the Mountains of Madness – Now Complete and Playable!
Arabella Freeman is a custom investigator inspired by a piece of art by Imad Awan that FFG just posted.
Return to the Forgotten Age (RTTFA) is a set of additional cards for the Forgotten Age (TFA) cycle for Arkham Horror: The Card Game (AHLCG). This review covers the changes that the additional cards and rules make to the campaign’s scenarios. A spoiler-free review is followed by a detailed breakdown of the changes, including heavy spoilers.
Mainline to the Mountains of Madness is an intense combat scenario with novel mechanics that scale the difficulty to the group size. It is the fifth scenario in the Betrayal at the Mountains of Madness campaign, a player-made cycle for Arkham Horror: The Card Game.
An exploration of the new rival keyword added in Betrayal at the Mountains of Madness.
For some time I’ve been making custom investigators for unreleased characters in the Arkham Files setting. Since I started, several of those characters have had official releases and more are confirmed as on the way. This Trish design is actually quite old now, but as she’s been announced for the upcoming Innsmouth Conspiracy box this … Continue reading AHLCG: Investigator: Trish Scarborough
Frostbound Cenotaph is the fourth scenario in the Betrayal at the Mountains of Madness campaign, a player-made cycle for Arkham Horror: The Card Game. This article contains minimal spoilers for the scenario and implicit spoilers for earlier scenarios. If you’d rather play it without any spoilers, you can find a Tabletop Simulator mod here. “Every … Continue reading Betrayal 4: Frostbound Cenotaph
Herein can be found a complete Youtube soundtrack for the core set and all campaigns up to and including Innsmouth. They are ambient tracks, intended to be looped, rather than a playlist of music. In cases where the tone changes radically at a certain point, I’ve provided another option to switch to. Sometimes there’s a … Continue reading AHLCG: Arkham Horror: The Card Game: The Soundtrack
I recently did an interview with the excellent Arkham Horror podcast Miskatonic University Radio. They’ve kindly been helping me to playtest the scenarios, and wanted to talk about how I design them. You can listen to the podcast in a variety of different ways (or perhaps all at the same time) here: http://miskatonicuniversityradio.blogspot.com/2019/12/miskatonic-university-radio-episode-35.html
Cold Heart is the third scenario in the Betrayal at the Mountains of Madness campaign, a player-made cycle for Arkham Horror: The Card Game. This article contains minimal spoilers for the scenario and implicit spoilers for earlier scenarios. If you’d rather play it without any spoilers, you can find a Tabletop Simulator mod and printable … Continue reading Betrayal 3: Cold Heart
It's Writing Itself! 